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[quote=Anonymous]I have mixed feelings about this. I am a super-woke person and I have actually intervened in an arrest before, but in an extremely cautious way. It does not do ANY good for a bystander to get in the face of the officers and make the situation more tense. At a certain point, if you're fighting with officers while they are trying to deal with a situation, you are in fact obstructing them ... and could make the situation more dangerous for everyone. Anyone who is going to take on the role of bystander needs to assure themselves that they are not making the situation worse. Also, apparently the kids being arrested had been threatening people with sticks and fireworks on the platform. So I think it's important for bystanders not to assume they know what was going on. And of course, none of this is to let the police off the hook for excessive force -- which seems to clearly be deployed here.[/quote]
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